This goes way beyond existing data wipe. With data wipe only the owner can command a wipe. This system would allow others to take command of your hardware, enabling or disabling cameras, mics and radios

This goes way beyond existing data wipe. With data wipe only the owner can command a wipe. This system would allow others to take command of your hardware, enabling or disabling cameras, mics and radios

+Sam Abuelsamid I still don't understand. I thought remote data wipe was a commonly available tool for corporate device managers. By extension, that means that anyone with the corporate level permission — including a government agency — could perform the wipe and as a result disable the phone and its ability to compromise a secure network. I'm not arguing I'm just trying to place this patent in the range of functions that are already available to corporate and government agencies for controlling non-Apple as well as Apple equipment. Such remote management is a common requirement, for example, in Federal mobile technology procurement contracts.

+Sam Abuelsamid I still don't understand. I thought remote data wipe was a commonly available tool for corporate device managers. By extension, that means that anyone with the corporate level permission — including a government agency — could perform the wipe and as a result disable the phone and its ability to compromise a secure network. I'm not arguing I'm just trying to place this patent in the range of functions that are already available to corporate and government agencies for controlling non-Apple as well as Apple equipment. Such remote management is a common requirement, for example, in Federal mobile technology procurement contracts.

+Dennis D. McDonald when I say "owners" that includes corporations that provide devices to employees. However, when I walk into my office, no one in the IT department can wipe my personal phone remotely (unless they have my login credentials for the service I use) or turn anything on or off. The only limitations are physical limitations caused by RF signals penetrating the building structure but that's just physics.

What Apple is proposing would allow police or virtually anyone else to remotely access my device without my permission and take control. That's just plain wrong.

+Dennis D. McDonald when I say "owners" that includes corporations that provide devices to employees. However, when I walk into my office, no one in the IT department can wipe my personal phone remotely (unless they have my login credentials for the service I use) or turn anything on or off. The only limitations are physical limitations caused by RF signals penetrating the building structure but that's just physics.

What Apple is proposing would allow police or virtually anyone else to remotely access my device without my permission and take control. That's just plain wrong.